BCG Tools & Methods
Many of the major tools and methods used by Bay Consulting Group are organized below by the major steps we go through in completing much of our work:
- Information Gathering
- Market research, literature reviews, jurisdictional analyses
- Best practice research
- Key informant questionnaires and surveys
- Process maps
- Environmental scans
- Analysis and Synthesis
- Structured interviews/focus groups
- SWOT and gap analysis
- Data mining/analysis
- Diagnostic tools/checklists – governance, culture, finance, structure, effectiveness, readiness, operations and processes
- Detailed assessments (e.g. governance– board model, board structure, board processes, skills & competencies, integrative thinking, risk management, strategic planning
- Process improvement/re-engineering
- Decision trees and matrices
- Competitive analysis
- Root cause analysis
- Strategic market analysis
- Opportunities Evaluation/Recommendation Development
- Leadership development
- Benchmarking
- Right practices
- Performance metrics and reporting, KPIs (e.g. balanced scorecard)
- Financial and statistical analyses, Key Success Indicators
- 2 x 2 analysis
- Risk management (assessment, prevention/mitigation)
- Scenario evaluation/modelling
- Cost/benefit/business case Analysis
- Group Facilitation – brainstorming, mind maps, categorization, voting and priority setting, small group sub-assessment, red light/green light, simulation
- Implementation
- Change Management
- Readiness assessment, coaching, setting targets, monitoring achievement,
- Change adoption framework, before, during and after
- Knowledge transfer
- Capacity building
- Contingency planning
- IT architecture development
- Negotiation strategy and tactics
- RASCIs
- Project Management
- PMBOK Project Management
- Project Sponsor
- Project Champion
- Project Charter
- Project Manager
- Project Plan
- Project Monitoring
- Issues Management
- Swift trust